New York was a big gap in OpenCorporates, and filling this is at least as big a milestone as hitting 60 million mark, particularly given its importance in the financial industry. However, in a global corporate world even small jurisdictions are important, as Vanuatu shows, as a sizeable proportion of those 5000 companies are offshore entities.

Finally, if you want to meet the OpenCorporates team in person, we’ll be at the following events:

Open Knowledge Conference, Sept 16-18, Geneva. Chris will be speaking about how and why open data can be not just good, but better than proprietary datasets; Seb will be showing off our soon-to-be released crowdsourcing for corporate networks.

Come and meet us there, and if you’re a Ruby developer who cares about open data and wants some interesting challenges, don’t forget we’re currently hiring.